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Three Nephites
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2/13/2017
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Provo, UT
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Female
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Farmington, UT
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Farmington, UT
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23
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Self
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White
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LDS
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I\ram senior at Brigham Young University studying English. I hope to become an editor. I am a newly wed. I am part of the fourth generation of Mormons in my family.
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I told this story to my husband for Family Home Evening, a simple spiritual activity that Mormon families typically do on Monday nights. I often heard this story from my parents at Family Home Evening when I was growing up. I happen to be named after the main character of the story.
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The three Nephites are mentioned in the Book of Mormon as some of Christ's apostles that chose to live on earth as God's servants until the Second Coming. This is very similar to the reference to John living forever in the Bible. There are many personal narratives and urban legends in the Mormon community regarding the three Nephites. In the nineteenth century, when the Mormon church was still very small, church leaders and missionaries encouraged\rnew members to move to the main body of members in Utah. The ancestors this story is about are from England (I got that wrong in my account), where early missionaries converted many people who decided to move to the West. I mention that some of my ancestors are named after the first four prophets (or presidents) of the church: Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, and Wilford Woodruff. From what I understand, it was somewhat common to name children after the prominent figures of church history. I also mention the mining disaster in Scofield, Utah. This happened on May 1, 1900, and was the worst mining disaster in American history. Over 200 miners died from an explosion in one of the shafts that released carbon monoxide and asphyxiated the many of the men before they could leave.
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Three Nephites, Church, Coal mining
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I recorded myself telling this story to my husband in the way it was told to me by my\rparents. I have taken out the ums and other similar fillers from the transcription.
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Elizabeth
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Smith
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Female
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23
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ENG 391
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Eric Eliason